Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-17
ADDISON COUNTY COURT.

The current term of the county court
lids fair to continue at least two weeks
onger. The case now ON, State VS..
k1orseman. will occupy the rest of this
week. The case State VS.. Flint is set
or next Monday and will probably take
full week; and State VS.. Mitchell is
et for Monday, the 9th. The civil cases
not tried have been disposed of in one
way and another; but there will be more
Dr less time taken up with divorce hear
ngs and other court cases.
The jury in Daniel W. Smith VS.. Town
of Ripton, which was on trial when our
asst report closed, on Friday morning re-
burned verdict for the plaintiff for
S73.07 and costs. The plaintiff claimed
the town should make him good for
offices. the constable, in not taking
good replevin bond.
Friday morning VIM. NJ. Farnham of
Shoreham VS.. Chas. A. Chapman of
Mddlebury came on. This was one
of the half dozen suits that grew out OF
the attempt to trade horses by John c.
StapletOn and b. b. Hope of this village
in the winter of 1883. The horse that
formed the basis of this suit was the one
that Stapleton let Hope have in that
trade. but Stapleton had the horse back
/ in his possession by replevin at the time
is is alleged that Chapman ,actingas agent
fnr Nta,,1nfnn sold rho hrutp N EurnhuI1
and warranted its title. Stapleton did
not appear when the replevin case came
on for trial and Judgment was rendered
for Hope. who thus obtained title to the
horse. which was now in the hands of
Farnham, who in his suit against Chap
man claims there was Il breach of Warran-
ty. As soon as the jury was called the
counsel for the defence argued that. in
accordance with arecent Pennsylvania de-
ci>ion. the plaintiff had no remedy against
Chapman: for, having title to the horse
acquired from Stapleton through his
agent, he should have defended the re-
plevn suit of Hope. Judge Rowell
deemed it best to pass the cause to the
supreme court for decision on this point
and therefore gave his decision pro .tormd
for the defense. Eldredge Il Slade for
plaintiff: Knapp and Bliss for defendant.
The next case taken up was that of
Enos Douglas and wife vs.. +. ID. Hall.
The plaintiffs live in Monliton; the de-
PENDANT is and long has been in the prac-
tice of medicine at New Haven street.
Suit was brought for $4,000 damages. it
being alleged that the defendant had per-
formed an abortion upon Mrs. Douglas
and that he neglected properly to care
for her afterwards, so that her health
was seriously impaired. The defense
was a general denial. The evidence was
not all in till Monday noon. Then Mr..
Slade opened the arguments for the plain
tiff and was followed by Mr.. Rider for
the defense Tuesday forenoon Hon.
John W. Stewart closed for the defense
and Hon. Henry Ballard in the afternoon
made the final argument for the plaintiff.
The jury considered the case till Wednes-
dav noon, could not agree and were dis
CudTScu. lIls WAS lIle HdIuceI louSHt
case of the term so far.
The grand jury reported Saturday
morning, were discharged and went
home. They found Ii true bills. -Four
of these are not yet made public: the
others are as follows:
State VS.. Solomon Cushion; breach of
the peace at Salisbury.
State vs.. Cyrillo Taylor: selling intoX-
icants in Addison.
State vs.. Arthur Manning; assault up
on girl with knife at Ripton.
State VS.. George LarrOw and John
Pinchon joint indictment for rape.
State vs.. George Larrow adultery.
State vs.. Frank +. Morseman; for
murder in the killing of Charles ii
Hinckley at West Salisbury last August
State vs.. Mrs. Sanders of Nergennes
homicide in causing the death of a child
by shooting, last winter.
State VS.. Albert Brown and Ida Bailey
blanket act.
State vs.. Mary Reed and David Lee
blanket act.
Wednesday morning State vs.. Morse
man was taken up. 1t is an indictmen
for murder. The respondent is charged
with having stabbed, at West Salisbury
on the 3lst of August last, Charlie
Hnckley. Hinckley died from the wouno
on the 3D. of September. The defens,
is that the stabbing was done in self
defense. For murder case it is rathe
uninteresting, though there were mum
Der of ladies in attendance Wednesday
States Attorney Wilds is assisted in tn
prosecution by Hon. f. X. Hard then,
defense is conducted by Hon. Henry Bal
lard and Mr.. Slade.